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This week, both President Obama and Mitt Romney's campaigns were criticized when an Obama ad claimed Romney caused a woman to die of cancer and a Romney ad said Obama wanted everybody to be on welfare.
Of course, even bringing up welfare was Romney's way of appealing to white voters without having to use the word uppity.
Republicans are particularly outraged that Obama's attacks on Romney seem almost as ruthless as what they always do and are working.
Just as predictable as the cheap shots are the commentators accusing both sides of cheap shots.
The much more important question they point out is what these two individuals would do as president, which is irrelevant because the genius of our system of government is nothing ever gets fixed and this cannot be fixed.
Which leaves crapping on the other guy every day until the election.
Some say Obama underestimates the voters by not speaking honestly about the need for middle-class tax increases.
I think Obama's about as honest with voters as they can possibly stand.
Meanwhile, it seems Romney's been getting nothing but bad advice.
But to be fair, it's very difficult to advise somebody to have a completely different personality.
People always say they don't like negative attacks, but human nature demands to see people beat each other into oblivion.
That's the whole basis for celebrity gossip, reality TV, and making Olympic athletes cry on the Today Show.
Basically, we're miserable creatures full of envy and self-loathing.
Or maybe that's just me being pissed off because it's already August and I can't seem to get out of town even for a weekend.
On the other hand, that was good news about them landing the Mars rover.
Thank you.
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We're up to a tough start.
Across the glass for me sitting in today, former writer for The Daily Show and hilarious comedian Steve Rosenfield.
Hey, Steve.
Hey, Jimmy.
That was great at the top of the show.
Again, I don't know what it is, but I bet it was great.
Thank you.
I'm very proud of it.
Everybody seemed to like it.
Next to him, a host of Comedy and Everything Else, Hilarious Comedian and Latina, it's Steph Zemarano.
Hi, Steph.
Ola, Jimmy.
You are a lady.
I'm sorry.
Ola, Jaime.
Oh, okay.
Don't say hi, me, okay.
Across from her, it's from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Cinematic Titanic now on whoo.
It's TV's Frank Frank Connoff.
Hi, Frank.
How are you?
Hello, Chief.
Since she said hi, me, I thought I'd do a guess for Skill.
And next to him, it's our resident libertarian slash conservative slash evolving person.
It's the host, not the host, the co-founder of the Titans Radio Network.
Radio Titans.
Radio Titans Network.
It's Karl Kozlowski.
Hi, Carl.
Hello.
And Carl's a writer for the Pasadena Weekly.
I always see his articles on the front page of it.
Every week, it seems like you have one, huh, Carl?
Oh, yeah.
This week we're going to be having a profile of Mark Maron and all the Montreal stuff that we were in Montreal together a couple weeks ago.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Remember when you saw me and then...
Yeah, I guess my profile is coming up pretty soon.
All right.
I don't know.
Did Mark Maron get you into the gala?
Oh, God.
Okay, thank you very much.
All right.
All right.
So what's happening right now?
You know, in his biggest campaign gaff yet, a Romney spokesman mentioned stuff Mitt Romney did as governor that actually helped people.
I don't know if you heard about that.
Yeah, we're going to talk about that coming up.
And Romney recently announced there's a new coalition, Women for Mitt Romney.
It's called Women for Mitt.
There's like what, one member?
Well, he's holding the first event at the Augusta National Country Club, which is men only.
So he's a little out of touch.
And you know what?
People are upset about how easy it is to buy a handgun.
Here's a little, I'll just give you a little scenario of how it is.
Frank, I'm going to be the guy walking in to buy a gun, and Frank, you'll be the guy at the gun shop, right?
Okay.
Hi, I'm a white supremacist in a neo-Nazi rock band, and I'd like to buy a gun.
Cash your credit card.
That was a nice little sketch up at the top of the street.
Nice job.
Nice job.
This is exactly as the founding fathers wanted, my friends.
Yes, and I hope you remember how Johnny Carson used to do his Carnac impression.
Now, a lot of the youngsters won't remember, but he would hold a piece of paper up to his head and he would announce the answer to the question that hasn't been asked yet.
I'm going to do that right now.
Ready?
I'm holding a piece of paper up to my head, and the answer is a dullard, a dipshit, and a douchebag.
Okay, let's open it up.
Who has Romney reportedly narrowed his VP?
Okay.
You are correct, sir.
Okay, and what's coming up on...
It was so hot in Los Angeles today.
Barry Hartman was snorting ice.
It's an actual joke he did.
Okay, who's Mary Hartman?
Frank, now I sound like you.
Yeah, I know.
Very hard to meet.
So what's coming up on today's show?
Well, that the Olympics, the opening ceremony to the Olympics happened.
We're going to talk about the opening ceremonies to the Olympics.
We're going to talk about Twitter and Michelle Obama met with the Queen.
Yes.
We talk about how important Mark Phelps, Michael Phelps, feels about his gold medals.
Plus, Harry Reid, is he a McCarthy or is he just a guy busting someone's balls?
Plus a lot lot more.
Oh, we have a phone call coming up from Mitt Romney.
And Mitt Romney's advisor, a spokesperson, is going to be calling in too.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
We'll be right back.
Time for another installment of Oh My God.
Okay, in this week's episode, in this week's segment of Oh My God.
So Brian Fisher, I don't know if you've ever heard of Brian Fisher.
Oh, he's a corporate tool who hosts the show FocalPoint, which teaches Christians how to use the Bible for hate and bigotry.
He's upset about Obamacare.
Obamacare's Driving him nuts because you know, Obamacare, part of it, companies, corporations, and companies that have a certain amount of workers have to provide health care and blah, blah.
So there's a couple of rules about how people have to, if you run a business in America, you have to provide health care, health insurance.
And here's what Brian Fisher has to say about it.
Be surprised at the number of organizations that are now required, ordered, forced by this dictator, by this fascist President Obama.
And that's what he is.
He is a fascist because he is letting you own your company, but he's telling you how you got to run it.
He's telling you the values that have to be a part of it.
That is fascism.
That's what Benito Mussolini was.
That's the way Hitler ran Germany.
You get to own your company, but we are going to tell you how to run it.
So Barack Obama is a fascist.
So this is fascism, ladies and gentlemen.
I have no hesitation using that term.
Barack Obama is a fascist Obamacare.
I need to say it a few more times, sir.
I didn't hear you.
We're seeing it in action right now.
Yeah, but Mike, my question would be, is he a fascist?
I wasn't sure where he was going with that.
And go ahead for what you said.
I thought he was supposed to be a socialist and a communist, and now he's a fascist.
He can't be both.
He's evolving, as you're saying.
I like that how he's a fascist.
And, you know, I'm sure that that's what it was, that he's just like Mussolini and Hitler.
You remember how when Hitler forced companies to give their workers health care?
Remember that?
That's what Barack Obama, he's just like that.
You know, they're like, hey, Hitler's rounding up the Jews and he's killing them.
I better be able to choose my own doctor.
I don't think universal health insurance was the problem people had with Hitler.
This is my point.
Yeah, but I don't know if you know it.
He's a fascist, though.
He's telling you how you got to run it.
He's telling you the values that have to be a part of it.
That is fascism.
That's what Benito Mussolini was.
That's the way Hitler ran Germany.
You get to own your company, but we are going to tell you how to run it.
So Barack Obama is a fascist.
So this is fascism, ladies and gentlemen.
I have no hesitation using that term.
Barack Obama is a fascist.
Obamacare is a fascist piece of legislation, and we're seeing it in action right now.
Come on, that's fun.
Well, I do.
You know what?
I'll defend him a little bit because Dr. Mengele worked under a single payer system.
You know, people were rounded up and given annual checkups.
So it wasn't all bad.
It was very funny.
Okay, so he, so let me give you a little background on this next clip that also comes to us direct from Brian Fisher.
So here's the background on this story.
So the Olympic committee has been pressuring Saudi Arabia to send more women athletes, right?
So they finally do.
They get this 16-year-old.
Turns out she's a 16-year-old.
She was a judo.
She goes in there for judo, but she wants to wear the headscarf, right?
And of course, you can't, but it's not part of the thing.
She's like, well, it's my religion, the blah, blah.
So there's a big controversy.
They end up letting her wear the headscarf.
Well, it turns out she's not a good judo person, and she gets her ass kicked really quickly.
Like in a minute or a little over a minute, she gets her ass kicked.
In her country, you're considered a judo expert if you can wave.
Was she like dragged to the carpet to the floor by the scarf?
I think that would be the ironic part.
That would have been ironic.
Well, it turns out she's not even a black belt in judo.
She was like a blue belt or something.
That sounds pretty.
It is, right?
So here's what Brian.
So when Brian Fisher heard about this, this is what he thought immediately.
So this is clearly just an effort to promote Sharia law.
Daddy Raymond saying, hey, you want a woman?
We'll send you a woman.
We'll send you a 16-year-old who's way out of her depth, shouldn't even be competing in amateur tournaments.
And then we're going to make you capitulate to Sharia Law by letting her wear a headscarf, and then she's going to get blitzed in 82 seconds in the competition.
So Sharia Law enshrined at the Olympic Games.
This is how they infiltrate by losing.
They're taking over.
The Muslims are taking over how by losing events quickly, getting their ass kicked.
We're going to be overrun by women wearing scarves who aren't that good in sports.
I mean, maybe you should get the concept that if it's meant to promote Sharia Law, she would have won, perhaps.
Nobody's that impressed when you lose, buddy.
Yeah.
That's Brian Fisher, ladies and gentlemen.
And this week's, oh my God.
Oh, my God.
This has been, oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
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So the Olympics, the Olympics are happening right now.
I don't know if you guys are watching the Olympics.
Are you guys watching the Olympics?
A little bit.
A little bit.
I have a problem with the Olympics because I have an inbred fear of them because my brother won the Triple Cast 20 years ago.
He literally won a radio contest, and that's what NBC put on 24 hours a day, multiple channels, every damn sport ever, totally covered, and just to torture us because he was so proud of winning.
He made us watch it.
We weren't allowed to change the channel for two weeks.
We watched every sport.
I've seen enough Olympics for my entire 10 lifetimes.
You know, people made fun of the triple cast, but I wish that they had that now because we're watching the volleyball the other day, Steph.
I recall.
So the women who actually won the gold, the Americans, they're playing and they lose their first set ever.
They've never lost a set in the Olympics.
They lose it.
And I'm like, oh, I wonder how they're going to come back.
So they go to a commercial, they come back, they skip the next set and show us the last set.
And I'm like, I want it.
They go, oh, they won the second set.
I want to see it.
They won the second set 20 to 8.
20 to 8.
They come back.
And that's the one they don't show?
That's the one they don't.
That would be really bad.
It wasn't very important.
Yeah.
So anyway, but we'll start off with the opening ceremonies happened, and they were nice.
I don't know if you saw the opening ceremonies, but let's be honest.
They couldn't hold a candle to Beijing's opening ceremonies.
Remember the Beijing opening ceremonies?
Mind-blowing, over-the-top effects and stunts, but it is amazing what you can accomplish when you rehearse at gunpoint.
And I think people are making such a big deal over the queen, especially during the opening ceremonies.
I'm listening to NBC here.
Here's how the Matt Lauer and crew had to say here's what they had.
The queen delighted the people of this country, of this nation, back during that tube believe with her spunk and her energy.
I think she went from royalty to rock star back then, and tonight she's a bond girl.
Yeah, she's a bond girl because whenever I think of a bond girl, I think of an 82-year-old boner killer.
Look, man, she's not just a cougar.
She's a minx.
The Bond girl that she is is Hussy Galore.
I'm not sure I get that.
Goldfinger, hello.
Yes, I got all that.
I know.
No, I got it, but I'm sure she's got to be curmudgeon galore.
I think that's it, right?
But she does have spunk.
She's at spunk.
So they have more.
They got more to say.
I doubt it.
People who know her say that she has a wicked sense of humor, and you are seeing it on display tonight.
Oh, yes.
She's a wicked sense.
You know, the queen does have a wicked sense of humor, but it's usually in private after she's had a few drinks and starts going off about the immigrants.
Pakistanis, especially.
I'd have a wicked sense of humor, too, if I lived at a palace, never worked a day in my life, got paid a fortune, and couldn't be fired.
Give me that job.
It's crazy.
I'll be an old lady.
It's crazy because she has this knack for comedy, and she's the queen of England, and yet she resents Whitney Cummings.
She's never satisfied.
Well, Frank, but who doesn't?
Frank, I mean, she does have a wicked sense of humor, but you made the point that isn't a lot of her comedy like bathroom humor.
Yes, it is, because she's always talking about being on the throne.
But she is.
She got a wicked sense of humor because whenever I think hilarity, I think of English leaders, you know, Winston Churchill, cut up, Margaret Thatcher, ball buster, and then the queen.
You know, it's right up there.
It's got a Groucho Marx, Bill Murray, and then the Queen of England.
Exactly.
But if you try to be funny around her, like if you go, oh, excuse me, Your Majesty, and you get in trouble.
Yeah, all of a sudden, you're the dick.
Yeah, yeah.
I know how that works.
Well, here, Billy Bush actually got an interview with Michelle Obama at the Olympics, and Michelle Obama got to meet with the Queen.
And so Billy asks her some stuff.
And first of all, here we go.
She's a wonderful person, a tremendous leader.
Whenever I get tired, I just think about what she has done her entire life.
First of all, it's so inspirational that in these difficult times, you can still have a brilliantly successful life if your father was the king.
Yeah, I'm sure Michelle every day, you know, at the end of a long day of campaigning, is just sitting there thinking about some white, privileged foreign leader whose entire life has been like a living example of the princess in the pee.
Exactly.
That's exactly.
She said in that, you know, whenever I feel tired.
Now, didn't Michelle graduate with honors from law school and work at a complicated woman.
She's an incredibly accomplished woman, which means even if you're not an accomplished woman, you've done more than you've still done more.
If you've never gotten out of bed, you're on par with her.
If you've accomplished anything.
One thing.
Well, it is a great point, you know, Carl.
Yeah, so whenever Michelle Obama is having a hard time, you know, finishing her day as first lady, she always thinks of some privileged foreign leader who was born into privilege.
It's just hilarious.
I mean, how hard is the queen's job?
She has two duties, Carl, being born and dying.
So she's already halfway there.
I think the hardest part of the queen's job is not letting on that she knows it's a gigantic scam.
How hard is her job?
Yeah, it's not easy letting 10 million people blow smoke up your ass for 60 years.
And then having Helen Moren play you in a movie.
You know, it's like, oh, what a dishonor that was, huh?
It's exhausting.
It's exhausting.
Okay, so then there's more.
So here's Billy Bush.
He has more to add.
Oh, so incisive that Billy Bush.
You know, I'm jealous of him.
He has a nice gig.
Here we go.
For a reception hosted by the Queen.
Do you talk to her?
There was a reception for heads of state, so I got an opportunity to greet her.
But did she reach for your hand or do you reach?
What was the protocol?
I wait for her to greet me.
Did she?
Absolutely.
Yeah, I know.
She spoke to me.
I couldn't believe it.
It was only Michelle Obama.
What was she going to say when he goes, I waited for her to reach for me?
Did she?
No, what a bitch.
Oh, my God, that's an oh, my God, moment.
That whole quote, I mean, she was given the dumb questions, so I can't blame Michelle for this.
But come on.
Oh, did she talk to you?
No, really?
Well, why is the first lady of the most powerful nation on earth acting like a subject of the queen from a smaller, shittier country?
We won over.
I beat them in that war.
I'd be more worried about protocol and meeting Ryan Secret.
I mean, at least Ryan had to earn his spot hosting a singing reality show as opposed to the queen.
It just bugs me that people who are more popular and more powerful, who actually earn their position in society by actually contributing to it through work, still play this game of wanting to impress someone born into privilege.
Oh, we might not be accepted by a quaint relic of tyranny left over from the Middle Ages, which that's all she is.
She's a leftover reminder of a time before democracy when monarchs ruled.
And guess what?
People lived in tyranny.
That's what she's a reminder of.
And turns out people are nostalgic for it, Frank.
People are nostalgic for tyranny.
You know, in those days, it was so bad the black plague was considered the golden years.
That's how bad it was.
Things were rough.
But you mentioned Ryan Secrets, but there's a protocol when you meet him, too.
It's like, should you be untalented first or should he be shot with his lack of talent?
How surprised do you have to be by his gleaming smile?
Very, very much so.
But, you know, the other thing that bothers me is: here's Billy Bush talking to the first lady, Michelle Obama, historic presidency, historic woman.
Everything is historic about it, more popular than any other leader in the world.
And here's Billy Bush talking to her like she's some kid who works at a soda pop store.
But hey, what was it like when you met this queen?
It's like, hey, Billy, you're talking to the first lady of the United States.
And I can kind of tell Michelle Obama's like, hey, what's the big deal, Billy?
She's meeting me.
It's just the whole thing bothers me.
I cuddle with the first black president ever.
I know what it's like to be around history.
Well, you know, Billy Bush is part of the Bush family, so that explains a lot of his questions.
Is he really?
He really is.
He's like a cousin or something of our nephew of George Bush and the whole game.
I swear to God, yes.
Okay, so here, continuing on with our Olympics theme, there's a swimmer named Tim Tom Daly, who's an English diver, not a swimmer and a diver.
And he's in his home country.
He's from England.
He's diving in England.
He's got a shot to win a medal.
It's a big deal.
It's a big deal over there, and people are going nuts for it.
First of all, he's in the men's synchronized diving, which at first I thought that was a joke.
Like men's synchronized sentiments.
It is a joke, by the way.
Remember when Dana Carr, was it Dana Carvey and Martin Short?
No, it was Martin Shorten, Harry Shirley.
Oh, that was it.
They did the men's synchronized swimming, which was a joke.
It was hilarious.
And now they have men's synchronized diving.
So I guess if you know, if you didn't, if you didn't get a boner watching wrestling, now there's synchronized diving.
So anyway, so they're doing it.
And here's how you know with the, listen really carefully, and you'll hear the announcer let you know how you know this event is important.
Tom Daley, how big is he here?
As of this morning, Tom Daly had the same number of Twitter followers as Michael Phelps, 50,000 more than Ryan Lockdown.
And to give you some idea how significant this is.
Ryan's a jerk.
Yeah, I'll give you some idea.
Well, how did we know stuff was important before Twitter?
and the answer to that question is we didn't.
I know the fact that he's at least one of the greatest athletes in his chosen sport is not as impressive as the fact that people follow Friday him.
The tragedy, you know, that's the tragedy, Frank, of Mark Spitz and Greg Luganis.
We didn't have Twitter back then, so nobody knew about them or how important what their accomplishments were.
Nobody knew.
Like, for instance, in 2004, Michael Phelps didn't even have a MySpace.
So it's like it never even happened.
Wow.
Well, you know, at least Bruce Jenner got to make a comeback and relevance to the world's minds as appearing on all the Kardashian shows.
Oh, yeah.
So he's back in the zeitgeist.
Yes, so the world does get to know what he thinks about things.
So I guess it's the competition that's really important: is he or Michael Phelps going to be the first one to link to a really cute cat video?
Once we get this swimming crap out of the way.
Well, speaking of Michael Phelps, he sat down with Bob Costas.
And by the way, let me just reset it.
I'm sitting in the studio.
This is the Jimmy Door show.
I'm sitting in the studio talking about the Olympics and the Olympic coverage with the former writer for The Daily Show and hilarious comedian Steve Rosenfield, the host of Comedy and Everything Else, the popular podcast.
It's Steph Semorano from TV.
It's TV's Frank from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Frank Conniff is with us.
And the co-founder of Radio Titans, it's Karl Kozlowski is here.
And right now, we're talking about the Olympics.
Michael Phelps sat down with Bob Costas.
And I don't know if you guys have been watching the Olympics, but half the time when Bob Costas isn't at a desk, he's sitting in a lazy boy kind of a thing, but it's like too big for him.
It's kind of like Lily Tomlin size.
And he kind of sinks into it because he's not the biggest guy in the world.
And he's sitting too far back and he's kind of bent over.
It's really, it's very awkward.
I wish they wouldn't do that.
But here he is.
He asked Michael Phelps why, after all his crazy success in 2004 and 2008, that he would put himself through such a grueling training regimen and again, put his body through stuff like that.
So here's what Michael, this is why he said he would do it.
But I just knew deep down inside that there were still other things that I wanted to accomplish.
I think the biggest thing that I didn't want was to have a what-if.
I never wanted to have a what-if.
What if I would have gone four more years?
Yeah, yeah, like what if I wouldn't have gone to the next Olympics?
What if I would have died only having won 14 gold medals?
Sure, I'm the first and only Olympian to win eight gold medals in one Olympics and already considered the greatest swimmer of all time.
But what if I don't do even more?
What about then?
What if I don't win another three gold medals like I did this year?
How could I ever sleep at night?
As a comedian, I've always wondered, what if?
What if Jack Nicholson worked at her Burger King?
It would go sucker actress.
Even though I'm on radio, I'm pulling my hair.
He is.
Oh, we're going to get the video for the premium subscriber.
That's what we got to do.
We've got to get the premium video.
That's the whole thing here.
People want premium video, Frank, and that's just the kind of thing we're going to give them.
All right.
Okay, here's a story that is kind of blowing my mind.
We all know that Mitt Romney can't run on his biggest legislative achievement, right?
Which was healthcare from Massachusetts, Universal Healthcare for this state.
But right now, the right wing is demanding that he can't even mention it.
He can't even bring it up.
Nor his spokespeople, right?
So here's Romney's spokesperson.
So here's the ad that Obama's putting out.
Okay, so we get a little background.
Here's the ad.
I don't think Mitt Romney understands what he's done to people's lives by closing the plant.
I don't think he realizes that people's lives completely changed.
When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my health care.
And my family lost their health care.
And a short time after that, my wife became ill.
I don't know how long she was sick.
And I think maybe she didn't say anything because she knew that we couldn't afford the insurance.
And then one day she became ill, and then I took her up to the Jackson County Hospital and admitted her for pneumonia.
And that's when they found the cancer.
And by then, it was stage four.
There was nothing they could do for her.
And she passed away in 22 days.
I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he's done to anyone.
And furthermore, I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.
Okay, so maybe a little heavy-handed.
The point is, a little?
A little?
Oh, my God.
That's a pretty heavy-handed.
Hey lay it on a bit thick.
They lay it on a little bit thick.
Hey, he restructured this plant, and then my wife got cancer and died.
But the part where he says, I don't think Mitt Romney cares.
Right, he does part is true.
I think that is true also.
So here is, so his spokesperson, her name is Andrea Saul.
So she was on Fox News, and they were asking her to respond to this commercial.
And here's how she handled it.
Obviously, it's unfortunate when anyone loses their job.
This particular case was a plant that was closed years after Governor Romney left the company.
And to that point, if people had been in Massachusetts under Governor Romney's health care plan, they would have had health care.
Okay, so there we go.
So that's what she said.
People, now the right wing freaked out over this.
They freaked out.
Because she mentioned something that was true.
You know, if people had been in Massachusetts under Governor Romney's health care plan, they would have had health care.
Because she mentioned something.
And that would actually be something that you could admire Mitt Romney for.
So there was no place for that in the question.
Yes, exactly.
Frank, you couldn't be more correct.
So here is Ann Coulter.
Ann Coulter was on with Sean Hannity, and she got a little worked up over it.
Here's her response to that.
Anyone who donates to Mitt Romney, and I mean the big donors, ought to call Mitt Romney and say, if Andrea Saul isn't fired and off the campaign tomorrow, they are not giving another dime because it is not worth fighting for this man if this is the kind of spokesman he has to respond to an ad like this by citing health care in Massachusetts.
What we're watching and witnessing here.
No, I'm serious.
No, I'm serious.
I know you're serious.
There's no point with me.
You're doing your shit.
I agree with you.
There's no point in ops going to a convention and pushing for this man.
If he's employing morons like this, this ad is the turning point.
And she has nearly snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.
Here is the point.
Off the campaign.
She's calling her a moron.
That's the pot calling the kettle blonde.
You know, she is right, but she's got the words a little screwed up.
Like, Andrea Saul has nearly snatched defeat from the jaws of defeat.
Okay.
That sounds more accurate.
Yeah, Mitt Romney is not.
But it is cool to know that they still feel super vulnerable about this healthcare thing, right?
Isn't it?
Okay, you know what?
Actually, we're up against a break, and we're going to, we'll be back in one minute, and we're going to be talking about what's coming up.
Mitt Romney's going to call in when we come back, and Andrea Saul is going to call in when we come back, too.
Plus, we got a lot more to get to.
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Hey, so what we're talking about right now, what's coming up on the second half, Mitt Romney's going to call in later.
Andrea Saul is going to call in later.
We're going to talk.
Right now, we're talking about the gaff.
It's every day.
It's a new gaff out of the Romney campaign.
So what happened was, let me just play this again for you because we missed it.
What happened was Barack Obama put out a commercial that talked about a pack for Barack One.
A pack for Barack Obama put out a commercial saying that Mitt Romney's company, Bain, closed down a company and then people lost their jobs.
And then this guy said, my wife got cancer and died and they're blaming it on Mitt Romney for closing down because indirectly he's kind of responsible, but I think it's a little heavy-handed.
But his spokesperson went on and said this.
Here's how she defended Mitt Romney.
Obviously, it's unfortunate when anyone loses their job.
This particular case was a plant that was closed years after Governor Romney left the company.
And to that point, you know, if people had been in Massachusetts under Governor Romney's healthcare plan, they would have had health care.
Boom, you can't say that.
So that got him big trouble.
And that led to Anne, that led Ann Coulter to say this.
Anyone who donates to Mitt Romney, and I mean the big donors, ought to call Mitt Romney and say, if Andrea Saul isn't fired and off the campaign tomorrow, they are not giving another dime because it is not worth fighting for this man if this is the kind of spokesman he has to respond to an ad like this by citing healthcare in Massachusetts.
Listen, but what we're watching and witnessing here.
No, I'm serious.
No, I'm serious.
I know you're serious.
There's no point in your doing your show.
I agree with you.
There's no point in off going to a convention and pushing for this man.
If he's employing morons like this, this ad is the turning point.
And she has nearly snatched victory from the Jobs and Defense.
Here is the point.
Off the campaign.
Okay, so that's so there.
So she's upset about it, right?
She was a little strident for Ann Coulter.
Yeah.
I wouldn't expect her.
That'll solve all your problems: fire that one person who said that one thing.
Like, Romney doesn't have a hundred other problems that are going to hold up.
Well, the spokeswoman should have been fired maybe for her voice more than anything she actually said for being shrill.
Well, no, she actually sounds like this.
Rubber Peebie's big adventure, the Alamo tour guide.
Oh, wait, the CS.
It was like, you're talking about something serious, and you're like, well, the mistake that her name is Andrea Saul, the mistake that she made was that she told the truth.
And that's always the, she tells the truth that there's Mitt Romney has an accomplishment.
You know, the Ann Coulter does have a point in the sense that politically, this was an opportunity for the Romney campaign to, and all of the media is hammering Obama for this ad too.
But the Romney campaign switched it back on to them by her using health care, by her pivoting, pivoting to health care when she should have just attacked Obama for the ad.
Yes.
So it was a very clumsy message.
Yeah, it was very off-message.
It was very clumsy.
Well, so we just heard how Ann Coulter responded to it.
So here is how Rush Limbaugh handled it.
You want to hear a voice of reason.
He's a little flabbergasted.
hair.
Oh, ah, ah, ah, There's.
That's the potential gold mine for the Obamaites.
Because they can say, well, yeah, and Romney cares the foundation for our plan, Obamacare, which they are already out there saying.
Yes.
Because it's true.
Yes.
Yes.
But Rush is, he's practically splendid because everyone on the right knows it's Ix Nay on the OmniCare rate.
And it's just amazing to me that the, and Romney can't help it either.
It's not just Romney.
I mean, it's not just his spokesperson.
Here's Romney in Iowa yesterday.
You want to hear?
Here's how what he said yesterday.
We've got to do some reforms in healthcare.
And I have some experience doing that, as you know.
And I know how to make a better setting than the one we have in healthcare.
He can't help it.
He can't help himself.
It's not his spokesperson.
He should fire himself.
It's like, hey, I know how to fix healthcare because I've done it with Romney Care, which helped create Obamacare, which I'm going to eliminate.
So forget what I just said about fixing healthcare.
That's a real thing.
This never happened.
You know, but even with all these missteps, Mitt Romney is still expected.
Pundits are saying, even with all these missteps, he is still expected to sweep the dumb fuck vote.
He's got him in the palm of his hand now.
I just think it's funny to see them run to two worst candidates possibly against the first plaque president ever nominated.
Palin and now Richie Rich.
This is unbelievable that they he's very beatable, Barack Obama.
The left is depressed.
They're not excited about him.
It's a horrible economy.
Gas prices, a whole deal.
And yet they put up against the one guy who's vulnerable to Barack Obama because he did everything.
And you know, the right, they see him saying this stuff, like what he said yesterday.
They see him saying this.
To do some reforms in healthcare, and I have some experience doing that, as you know.
And I know how to make a better setting than the one we have in healthcare.
And they go, he's just, see, they don't trust him.
The right doesn't trust Romney.
They go, he's doing it right now.
He's doing it under our noses.
They're not going to vote for him.
They're not going to come out.
I don't think the liberals are going to come out for Obama.
I don't think the right's going to.
Even though the right is motivated by hating Barack Obama, I think they hate Mitt Romney, too.
Well, I think I don't know if I agree with that.
I think that they would, you know, they would elect, they'd elect Noam Chomsky over Obama.
You know, yeah, but they wouldn't come out for Noam Chomsky.
Right.
You know what I mean?
I don't think they're going to come out for Romney.
I don't think they feel comfortable speaking highly of him in public.
I don't think they can't wait to criticize him and jump down his throat.
Right?
Am I right about this?
Yeah, it's like if you were, you know, if you were a rock and roll fan and the only concert you could see was Kenny G. Is this Kenny G or Christian Rock?
He just has this complete lack of charisma or anything to get excited about.
I mean, it's like, as you mentioned, I intend to lean to the right.
And I'm like, really?
This guy?
I mean, it makes out bored look like Jesse Jackson.
I mean, you know, I guess I do.
Okay, well, guess what?
Mitt Romney actually called in.
He had something to say.
We're talking with Governor Mitt Romney's on the phone.
Governor Romney, thanks for joining us once again.
Hey, how's your summer going, buddy?
Oh, great, Jimmy.
I took a summer trip to London, Israel, and Poland.
You know, there's nothing like travel to broaden your horizons and open up your mind to new reasons why you should blow your friggin' brains out.
Okay.
Things haven't been going too well overseas.
How have they, Mitt Mitt?
Oh, it's very frustrating, Jimmy.
He really thinks I'm a jerk.
Well, I think I'm a jerk, too.
So why doesn't everybody love Mitt Romney?
What are taken the popular position of hating Mitt Romney?
You know what?
I think it might have something to do with the fact that you are so beholden to the right wing, you won't even take credit for your own achievements.
Hmm, beholden to the right wing.
I like where this is going.
Continue.
I love you.
Your main campaign spokesperson, Andrea Saul, she got into a bit of trouble yesterday for mentioning your signature accomplishment as governor, healthcare reform in Massachusetts.
Jimmy, Andrea Saul is a trusted aid, and I will not diswork her name.
I'll put it this way: sometimes she says things she shouldn't because she's a hopeless drunk.
Governor, come on.
Why don't you just tell the country that when you were governor, you passed legislation that actually helped people?
Jimmy, that is a terrible thing to say.
And I will not allow you to insult me with such reckless accusations.
Governor, the fact is, you've accused Obama's health care and welfare programs of being socialist when you instituted exactly the same policies as governor.
Have you read Karl Marx, Jimmy?
Well, that's a stupid question.
Of course you have.
I bet the internationale is your rado.
Well, it clearly says in the communist manifesto that all socialist policies cease to be socialist when they happen in the state of Massachusetts.
You know, I'm sorry, governor, but you are engaging in rank hypocrisy.
Well, I don't call it rank hypocrisy.
I call it steadfast witchiness.
Whatever you want to call it, governor, you come off as weak.
Weak?
I'm the only reader in this country with the strength and courage to stab myself in the back all that weak.
Not easy to do, Buster.
Okay, before I let you go, Governor, one more question.
What is your reaction to getting an endorsement from porn star Jenna Jameson?
Oh, I'm thrilled, Jimmy.
I'm a big fan.
Really?
You're a Mormon?
Oh, hey, well, either way, Jenna and I have a lot in common.
She has a movie called Fairly Legal, and I'm making a film called Farmerly Ethical.
This is very surprising, Governor.
Oh, I can't tell you how many pairs of magical underfans I've gone through just thinking of Jenna David.
She excites you, huh?
Oh, you better believe it.
When I watch her in action, I secrete so many bodily fluids, I could baptize an entire box car of dead shoes.
Wow.
Well, Governor Romney, thanks for joining me today.
Oh, always a pleasure, Jimmy.
I always enjoy it.
And one more thing.
Why don't you go choke on a bag of dirty chipsy dicks, you cock-sucking flea-filled butt nugget?
Okay, that was Governor Mitt Romney calling in.
Oh, he always goes off on the wall.
He's got a filthy mouth.
Something about being on the radio.
He brings it out in him.
Wow.
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It's Steph Zamarano from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
It's TV's Frank Frank Conniff and the co-founder of the RadioTitans.com.
It's Carl Kozlowski is here with me today.
And right now, we're going to talk about, well, I just have this clip of Donald Trump.
He was on.
Who was he on with?
He was on fire.
That's right, Greta Van VanMan.
I get excited now anytime Donald Trump is talking.
Me too.
So he's so transparent.
I really thought he used to be like this cool, hard-ass guy, but he's more and more.
Every time he talks, he's like this needy little kid who wants everybody's affection and attention.
Well, listen, here's he is talking to Greta.
You see what I'm saying?
So, Donald, the Republican convention's coming up.
Are you going?
That's the first question.
Secondly, if you are, do you intend to be speaking to the audience?
Well, they want me to go, and I'm going to be in Sarasota the night before, where I'm being honored by the Republican Party in Florida as the statesman of the year.
And that will be very...
Yes, he's being punchlined.
He's Honored for Statesman of the Year, which in Florida only lasts through August.
Who came in second?
The guy who shot those people in Target?
No, it was George Zimmerman.
George Zimmerman came in second.
Oh, okay.
Nice.
That's good.
Interesting, and I look forward to that.
And I probably will be going, but they do want me to go, yes.
How about speak?
Have you been asked to speak?
I'd rather not say that yet, but they do want me to do something very major at the convention.
Mine.
All right, well, something very major.
Now you've certainly teased us.
What's the very major?
Can you give us a hint?
I can't.
I don't have to say, but it's something very, very major.
I've been known as being a very smart guy for a long time.
That's what I think of.
It's just him being so desperate.
They have not.
That's like his way of saying, I think somebody needs to ask me to speak.
It's like he's going, I'm going to be in Sarasota the night before.
What a coincidence.
Both cities are in Florida.
Plus, I could just fly right over to Tampa because I have my own private plane, which I own, which happens to be mine, Greta.
I have a lot of money, and I'm important.
Bretta, look at me.
Look at me, Greta.
I have my own plane.
I have a television show.
Greta, you can hardly detect my gigantic inferiority complex.
Greta, Greta.
Plus, I'm smart.
He wants Statesman of the Year, which is on top of being douchebag of all time.
Statesman of the Year is about as worthy a title as English Queen.
There's not going to be, you know, that I'm just saying there's not going to be a lot of room on that mantle anymore.
Well, I think they should have him because I know there's going to be a lot of billionaires there, so they should be someone to represent the fake billionaire.
Equal opportunity, right, Frank?
Yes, people who are just pretending that they're unbelievably wealthy should have a voice then.
Let me just say, of course, the Republicans' idea of a statesman is any GOP politician who hasn't been arrested in an airport's menroom.
I almost said men room.
Men room.
I said men room.
I like how Greta goes, Henry.
Greta goes, have you been asked to speak?
He's like, well, something very like that, Greta.
I've been asked not to speak.
So it's very to do something very major, Greta.
Every night after the convention adjourns, the most powerful male delegates are going to need dates.
Very important job.
Very important.
He's actually, because Chris Christie's doing the keynote, he's going to look into turning Chris Christie into one of his buildings.
He's a large man.
He is a large man.
The thing I love about Trump is that, remember, he used to run around and he was saying stuff like this.
I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding.
You have people now down there searching.
I mean, in Hawaii.
Absolutely.
And they cannot believe what they're finding.
So that was Trump talking about the birth certificate.
Remember that?
They can't believe what they're finding because what he was talking about was they were finding out that he actually had a birth certificate.
And they couldn't believe it.
Nobody else could believe what could believe that they were even trying.
So everybody wins.
So he goes on with the Wolf Blitzer.
Take a look.
And you tell me, really, you analyzed the birth certificate.
There are many people that don't agree with that birth certificate.
They don't think it's authentic, Wolf.
I don't know when you say many people who don't agree.
Many people.
Like who?
Give me a name of somebody a major sort of authority.
He's a guy named Hank Santa.
Give me a name.
There are many people.
I don't give names.
There are many people that...
He's a fascist.
He's a fascist.
What is it with these guys?
Hey, could you cite your source?
I don't give sources, okay?
I'll just repeat myself.
Tell us with your people who were investigating in Hawaii, what they found.
We don't have to go into old news.
That's old news.
Plenty found.
It sounds like, heavens to Murgatroyd.
How dare you ask me that question?
How dare you?
Heavens to Murgatroyd.
That was the lie I was telling two months ago.
This is a whole different thing now.
That's the...
I'm not everybody since.
I dump.
I'm going to get it, and I want the stick.
Every time I hear Trump speak, that's what I think of.
Okay, so we all know that Harry Reid has been saying that Mitt Romney hasn't paid taxes for the last 10 years, right?
And everybody's freaking out that he's doing this because this is kind of a ballsy move for not only Harry Reid, but for a Democrat in general, right?
They usually don't do stuff like that.
They don't pick fights.
They don't stand up to people.
The party of Trump, Kane, and Gingrich is freaking out that someone is making reckless accusations.
Yes.
Yes.
And they really are.
But not only they are freaking out.
Well, here's how they're freaking out.
Harry Reid doesn't have any evidence either.
This is McCarthyism from the desert.
He's now a reveal for the small, vicious little man that he is.
He goes to the Senate for to announce an anonymous accusation, which would have made Joe McCarthy Bush.
Right.
Okay.
So not only them, not only are these right-wingers, these overheads.
But here's Bob Schieffer.
But isn't this kind of like Joe McCarthy back in the era when he said, I have here in my hand the names of 400 people in the State Department who are communists.
First of all, Bob Schaefer, no, it's not.
But I appreciate you pushing a right-wing talking point because you're freaking out because you've never seen a liberal Democrat actually stand up and make accusations and fight brass knuckle politics like the right does all the time.
And you would never call those guys McCarthy.
You know, Donald Trump has been running around for two years now asking for his birth certificate.
When he showed it, he's asked for his college records.
When he's shown his colleague, he's asked for his passport.
Nobody's ever called that guy a race baiter.
Nobody's ever called that guy McCarthy.
Harry Reid isn't even accusing Mitt Romney of a crime.
He's just saying release your tax records like your father did.
Go ahead, Carl.
But I thought that Harry is saying that he didn't file his taxes, which would be a crime.
No, no, no.
He said he didn't pay his taxes.
He didn't pay.
He didn't pay any taxes.
He didn't say he didn't do it illegally.
He's saying he used the tax system.
No, that's which is perfectly legal.
Yes.
But he's saying that not to not pay any taxes.
We all know how these gigantic corporations like Mobile or whatever, they don't pay any taxes.
But he's saying that would be a motivation for Romney to not release his tax returns because he doesn't want us to know that he didn't pay.
Wow.
Okay, God.
And it's diabolical politics on the part of Obama and Harry Reid.
Absolutely.
But there's a part of me that's glad to see them going back at the Republicans.
I don't think there's anything wrong with what they're doing because they're not accusing him of a crime.
They're just shaming him, which is what you could, that's what they're supposed to do.
They're shaming him to release his tax records that he won't release.
The ones he's already released show him to be paying less taxes than regular working people.
13.
He's being arrogant.
Yes, Gosta.
Well, you know, he's being arrogant by not.
Right.
He totally is, Steve.
And I think, weren't they hoping that this whole thing would go away?
Yes.
And that Harry Reid is right back.
And Harry Reid's not going to go away.
That's my favorite part.
And they walked right into their trap because then when they wanted it to go away, then Romney's suddenly, hey, I've paid all my taxes.
Well, why don't you release your returns?
I've paid all my taxes.
And then the fact that Ritt Romney engages with Harry Reid is such a mistake because now you're fighting with Harry Reid and you're losing.
You don't look presidential when you can't beat Harry Reid in an argument publicly.
Okay, so when so when Harry Reid asked for him to release his taxes, everybody, including the CBS news anchor, calls him McCarthy, right?
But here, listen to this.
Million dollars trying to hide so many different things from his past, whether it's college applications, college records, passport records.
And, you know, nobody brings this up.
Nobody says, open up your passport records.
Open up your college application.
You know why?
Because no one's ever asked another president to ever do that.
No one has ever asked, we're going to, I want, why don't they ask Barack Obama to prove his citizenship in a way that we've never asked anyone else to ever do before?
Why don't they do that?
And then why do people call me racist?
I let Otto City Hall win my job.
But as far as the college, not to sound as stupid as some of these guys and how they do it, but we do know what Bush's grades were.
We do know what Gore's grades were.
And it's like, those guys were such dumbskulls.
Bush was a C student.
Gore was a D student.
And then why isn't Obama released in his college records?
Is it voluntary or do these guys, are they required or what?
That's one thing I never understood.
First of all, I saw Donald Trump give a speech in front of the North Carolina Republican Convention, and what he wanted to see was Barack Obama's college application.
He goes, I just want to see, because there's a place on there that says place of birth.
I just want to see what he put there.
I just want to see what he put there.
First of all, once you send in your college application, you don't have it anymore.
The college, do you still have your college application, Carl?
I don't have mine.
I don't have mine.
And I'm pretty sure the colleges don't hang on to them either.
And by the way, why would he have to show no one's at?
That's up to the college.
That's not, Barack Obama doesn't have his.
So this is what, again, we're questioning Barack Obama in a way that's no one's ever been questioned before.
And nobody ever calls Trump McCarthy.
Race made all you want, be proven crazy, and no one will ever say it.
But Harry Reid doesn't even accuse Romney of a crime.
And he's called McCarthy by mainstream news guys.
It's because a liberal is fighting back and they don't know how to handle it.
Now, I saw it just before I came here.
Newt Gingrich was a guest on the Chris Matthews show, and Chris Matthews did not introduce him as racist serial adulterer.
Exactly.
Newt Gingrich.
He's presented as a respectable person who's going to give his take on who's going to be the Veep choice or whatever.
So it's a complete double standard.
Well, here's where Trump got this stuff about asking about his college records and stuff, because there's a guy named Wayne Allen Root, right?
He wrote an article.
He wrote an article at the Glenn Beck's website, and it says that Obama has a big secret about his college years and that he attended there as a foreign student.
His name is Wayne Allen Root, and he went on, and here's his evidence.
Here's the evidence he gives to Sean Hannity.
I was a pretty connected guy.
I knew a lot of people.
I knew pretty much everyone I thought in the political science department.
I never met him.
I never saw him.
I never heard of him.
No one that I know at Columbia ever met him, ever heard of him, or ever saw him.
Okay, so that's his evidence.
So Obama's pretending he went to college.
He didn't go to Columbia.
You never heard of Obama.
He never met or know anyone who ever heard of Obama, but ready?
Wait, here for it.
Here, wait for it.
It's strange.
It's mysterious.
Doesn't mean he didn't go there, by the way.
I'm sure he went there, but he's probably busy smoking pot and attending socialist meetings.
What can I tell you?
So that's your story?
That he probably went there, but you never met him?
This is your story?
Is it just because you wanted to play dress up as a real reporter who has a scoop, except you don't have one?
This was completely just, and nobody says that to him.
So then that story gets repeated by Rush Limbaugh.
It gets on Sean Hannity.
It gets quoted on Fox News.
And that's how the difference, and Carl, that's what I would say the difference between the left and the right media is.
If something like this comes out on the left, it doesn't see, never sees the light of day.
Sure.
You know, I mean, Rachel Maddow's not going to repeat it.
It's not going to go on the MSNBC website.
Dan Rather lost his career for trying to get a little stuff about for speculation on this.
Dan Rather lost his job for saying something accurate, but not having the documents to back it up.
Okay.
And none of these people ever have any documents to back anything up.
I just want to play that one more time.
I was a pretty connected guy.
I knew a lot of people.
I knew pretty much everyone I thought in the political science department.
I never met him.
I never saw him.
I never heard of him.
No one that I know at Columbia ever met him, ever heard of him, or ever saw him.
It's strange.
It's mysterious.
Doesn't mean he didn't go there, by the way.
I'm sure he went there, but he...
Because I didn't know him.
I know.
I know when you go to Columbia University, you meet every student there.
Everybody of consequence.
If he was worth knowing, I would have known him.
So Wayne Allen Root, for God's sake, who are you?
He obviously didn't smoke pot because Obama was smoking pot.
Yeah, we don't, the way he's talking, I knew people.
It sounds like he's the drug dealer of the campus.
So let's just, I'd like to put those two in a room right now, Barack Obama and Wayne Allen Root, and have them both just say the same thing.
I never met him.
I never heard of him.
And see which one sounds like a bigger idiot.
The president, I never met this guy.
I never heard of him.
I never met this guy.
Yeah, okay.
My rant today is inspired by LIBRE.
And I dedicate this rant to Jamie Diamond, the CEO of Chase Peterson's of B of A and Vikram Pandit, a Citigroup.
About four years ago, credit card companies suddenly increased their customers' interest rates to over 23% because they could.
I called my credit card company, Chase Manhattan, disputing the change.
And while speaking with his supervisor, suddenly, I was listening to a recorded message informing me, Jace Manhattan will no longer accept calls from this number.
Further correspondence would need to be in writing due to your aggressive tone.
Wow.
Sure.
We will change the terms of our previous contractual agreement, but if you get snippy about this criminal practice, we will ignore you because no one will do anything about it.
Now, if you excuse us, we need to commit worldwide fraud on an epic level.
That was the day I swore that once this debt was paid off, I would never, never do business With J.P. Morgan Chase Manhattan.
And since they're all in bed together, Bank of America Citigroup can suck it too.
By the way, did you know in Florence during the Renaissance, the Arte del Cambio, the guild of mercantile money changers who facilitated the city's international trade, made the cheating of clients punishable by torture.
Rule 70 of the guild status stipulated that any member caught in an unethical conduct could be disciplined on the rack or other corrective instruments at the headquarters of the guild.
Now, don't you think it's about time that we actually had some sort of justice serve for all the asswipe Wall Street bankers that made their life's mission to do creative banking?
Think about it.
Today's show was written.
That's Frederick was written by Steph Samurano, Mike McRae, Frank Conniff, Steve Rosenfield, and Robert Yasimura.
Special thanks to Carl Kozlowski from Radiotitans.com for sitting in with us.
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